A ‘dam’ good story from the Czech Republic recently! The government spent seven years and US$1.2m planning a new dam for a protected wetland. When the experts turned up to inspect the site, they discovered a family of eight beavers had built a dam in the exact same spot in just two days.
Project head Jaroslav Obermajer, of the Central Bohemian office of the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency (AOPK), even admitted the beavers’ dam was better than their design.
This shows how wasteful and dangerous bureaucracy is. Seven years of environmental protection was lost. Here in New Zealand, we don’t have beavers to save us, but David Seymour has an anti-red tape campaign.
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Last time this was done, the Productivity Commission reported that a council required a bus shelter with no walls to have exit signs on all four sides. What is your best (or worst) story?
